The Journey

This film was interesting as a document of the transition of people and countries away from the USSR. The acting is excellent, and the story compelling enough to hold one's attention almost to the end. The film fails partly due to a real lack of character development, and implausible interactions between the lead roles. Two-dimensional characters behaving somewhat inexplicably brought this film down from being excellent to merely ok.

You will Feel the 3 major aspects of a person in this movie :

1- His Patriotism 2- His social Life 3- The Conflict between realism and romantism

All mixed in a very beautiful artistic way and a very good and excellent performance of Sona Tatoyan and Tigran Nercessian under the Perfect Direction of Edwin Awaness and Emmy Zohrabyan

"The Journey" is a brave attempt by industry outsiders, people with limited experience in film-making. They had a vision and against innumerable odds they made the movie. Because of low budget the director is also writer/producer/editor. That is too many extra hats to wear for a first time director. And clearly, he cannot handle it. The movie was made, but because of such restrictions, "The Journey" is not the best it could have been.

Unfortunately, I found the script to be very disappointing. The dialogue is bland and quite uninteresting. The characters deliver one trite musing after another. It is as if they say things simply to have them said. (I used to do something similar in my essays, when I'd have an idea and would just insert it somewhere, anywhere in the essay). Every scene has the same (low) emotional impact. The movie is almost episodic. Eve's "journey" seems to be very linear. Obviously, the writers are clueless about what originality means. They needed to develop the STORY and let the viewers make the appropriate conclusions, and not have the characters utter their premature conclusions for us.

Having said this, I think it is well worth watching "The Journey." The perseverance of the filmmakers is admirable. It is very difficult to make a movie and with limited (!!) resources "The Journey" was made.

"The Journey" is a film that balances several areas including love, passion, struggle, independence, life and finding oneself.

It can be compared to some of the great works of independent films and should not be overlooked. Based on a true story.

After reading the comments here I was more interested to watch this film so I order the DVD through amazon.com. After watching 'THE JOURNEY' and it's behind the scenes footage I was very impressed with the stylistic choice that these filmmakers approached. I found the story very touching and true to ones experience. Great cinematography and superb acting.

But I was very saddened by the 'comments' made by `GAintablian' and `harrya007' because their uneducated write-up is purely written not as a comment but as a personal attack to filmmakers with the agenda of harming the film. As `GAintablian' so called comment on a filmmaker should not leave the camera fixed on shots. Just for his knowledge these are called 'Protracted Shots' which in this film was used to underline Eve's state of existence which suggest the influence of such master of cinema as Theo Angelopoulos which brings on the screen the strong sense of character nuance, and social realities.

As far as `harrya007' write-up. what can I say it is self explanatory that this person has not seen the film and is willing to put down these filmmakers 3 years of hard work for his/her selfish reasons.

It is understandable if one doesn't like a movie or some what likes a movie. As is in the case of this film there are few people that didn't like as much as I did but their 'comments' are comments, pointing out what they did like or didn't like about the movie.

Enough said. I know that people who come to this site they know what comments are genuine as I did. So I recommend this film to all specially to those who appreciate Theo Angelopoulos' films such as 'ULYSSES' GAZE'.